Asian Pacific American History Month

The Library Features Asian Pacific American History Month!

Check out our Contemporary Reading Shelves for books highlighting the rich history and culture of Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States and the world. Included are the following great works of Literature:

Collections

Aiiieeee!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers

Bamboo Shoots in the Rain: Contemporary Stories by Women in Taiwan

Because of the Rain: Korean Zen Poems

Echoing Song: Contemporary Korean Women Poets

Going Home to a Landscape: Writings by Filipinas

Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam

Returning to a Borrowed Tongue: Poems by Filipino and Filipino American Writers

12 Philippine Writers

Works by Authors

Cao, Lan. Monkey Bridge

Chai, May-Lee. Hapa Girl

Chin, Justin. Gutted

Chin, Marilyn. Dwarf Bamboo

Dali Lama. A Policy of Kindness

Golden, Arthur. Memoirs of a Geisha

Hagedorn, Jessica. Dogeaters

Hagedorn, Jessica. Dream Jungle

Hayslip, Le Ly. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman’s Journey from War to Peace

Hongo, Garrett. Volcano: A Memoir of Hawaii

Hwang, David Henry. M. Butterfly

Jen, Gish. Mona in the Promised Land

Jen, Gish. Who’s Irish?: Stories

Jin, Ha. Waiting

Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior and ChinaMen

Lee, Chang-Rae. A Gesture Life

Lee, Gus. China Boy

Lee, Gus. Tiger’s Tail

Lee, Li-Young. The City in Which I Love You

McGunn, Ruthanne Lum. The Moon Pearl

McGunn, Ruthanne Lum. Thousand Pieces of Gold

Min, Anchee. Empress Orchid

Mirikitani, Janice. Love Works

Mirikitani, Janice. We, the Dangerous

Mori, Toshio. Unfinished Message

Murakami, Haruki. After Dark

Murakami, Haruki. Norwegian Wood

Murayama, Milton. All I Asking for is My Body

Oe, Kenzaburo. The Crazy Iris

Okada, John. No-No Boy

Pham, Andrew. Catfish and Mandala

Rodgers, Richard and Oscar Hammerstein. Flower Drum Song

Tan, Amy. The Bonesetter’s Daughter

Tan, Amy. The Hundred Secret Senses

Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club

Tan, Amy. The Kitchen God’s Wife

Tan, Amy. The Opposite of Fate: A Book on Musings

Xinran. Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet

Yee, Chiang. The Silent Traveler in Japan

Yee, Chiang. The Silent Traveler in San Francisco

Yep, Laurence. The Rainbow People

Yep, Laurence. The Star Fisher

Yoshikawa, Eiji. Taiko

National Poetry Month Special Reading at Chabot Library, Tuesday, April 16!

Join Us!

Come hear Professor Susan Gubernat read her poetry…

Chabot Library

Tuesday, April 16^th 12-1 pm 

Our winning student poets will share their work with us for the first half hour then Professor Gubernat will read from her work. We would love to have you enjoy this with us.

Susan Gubernat’s first book of poems, Flesh (Helicon Nine Editions), won the Marianne Moore Prize; her chapbook Analog House, was published in 2011 by Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Gargoyle, Michigan Quarterly, The Pinch, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Stand (U.K.), The Yalobusha Review, among others. An opera librettist, her major work, Korczak’s Orphans (composer: Adam Silverman), has been performed in a number of venues, and by a number of companies, including in the VOX New Composers Series of the New York City Opera and by the Opera Company of Brooklyn. Gubernat is a Professor in the English Department at California State University, East Bay, where she inaugurated and now advises the award-winning annual magazine, the Arroyo Literary Review. Her own awards and honors include residencies at the MacDowell, Millay, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo colonies, as well as artist’s fellowships from the states of New York and New Jersey.

*sponsored by ASCC (special thanks to those wonderful folks), the Chabot Library, and the English Dept.